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TOBAGO() PACKING MACHINE.

No. 314,539. PatentedMar. 24, `1885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part or" Letters Patent BT03145139, dated lvaroh 24%, 1885.

Application filed June 1l, 1884. (Model.)

.To cri/'Z whom, t may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM'R. Mossen, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leftwich, in the county of Campbell and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Tobacco-Packing Machine, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to machines for packing smoking-tobacco and other materials of a like form; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement ot' parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure lis a view in perspective of a to bacco-pacliing machine embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on the line :c x in Fig. l. Fig. 3 isa side elevation, and Fig. 41's a sectional detail view, of the standard and the top cross-head, showing the perforations for the additional plunger-rods. Fig. 5 illustrates a modification. Fig. 6 is also a modification. Fig. 7 is a detailed plan view of the perforated guide plate.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A designates the bed-plate or floor, to which the feet of the frame B are bolted to give the frame greater stability.

C designates the power-shaft of the machine, which is provided with a band-wheel, D, at one end, and a small cog-wheel, F, near the other end, of said shaft C. The cog-wheel F meshes with a larger cog-wheel, G, on the end of a shaft, II, having bearings in the frame B between the guideways l'. The shaft H is provided with two sector-shaped cams, J and J, iixed thereon between the sides of the frame, and projecting from said shaft H in opposite directions, as shown. 'These cams J J work in rectangular sash-frames L L, secured to slides M, working in the guideways I, and provided with bearing-lugs N on their lower sides, in which are pivoted the upper ends of short arms 0. The cams J J are caused to reciprocate the sash-frames in their guideways I as they revolve, and operate the levers and plungers connected to the plungerframes. The lower ends of these short arms O are bifurcated to receive the power ends of the levers P P', fulcrumed on a shaft, P2, inthe frame B. The weight ends of the levers P P are pi voted in the bifu rcated lower ends of vertical arms Q Q', the bifurcated upper ends of which are pivoted to the lower cross-heads, R R. of the mold-lifting frame R2 and the plunger-frame S. The table T is provided with a central metal plate.I", which is se; cured to and forms the top ofthe frame B. From this plate T rises a standard, U, which has a horizontal arm, U', provided with a series of vertical perforations, U2, for the passage of the guide-rods V V and the plunger-rod V or rods of the plunger-frame S. The top crosshead,S,of the plunger-frame is provided with a corresponding series of vertical perforations, W, in which the upper ends of the guide-rods V V and the plunger-rod V, or rods, are adjustably secured by jam-nuts W on the threads of said rods, above and below the upper cross-head, S. The plate T is perforated for the passage of the guide-rodsV V, which extend down below the table, and are secured in vertical perbrat-ions in the wide lower cross-head, It, by jam-nuts, as shown. The plate T is also provided with vertical perforations X and X, for the passage of the guide-rods z and the adjustable guide-rods y of the mold-lifting frame R2. The rods z and the adjustable rods y (when the niachine is in its normal position) are connected just above the plate T by yokes c a, held in place, by jam-nuts b above and below saidiyokes. The rods y project down through perforations in the cross-head It of the plunger-frame S, and also project upward through perforations in the adjustable sliding lifter-plates c c, having vertically perforated lugs d, through which the guide-rods V V are passed, and these plates c c are held to their adjustments on the rods y by jam-nuts e above and below the plates c c. The rods of the mold-lifting frame R2 pass down to and are secured in ver-v tical perforations near the ends of the lower narrow cross-head, R, of the frame It?, it being the only crosshead for said frame R2. The ends ot' the cross-head It are grooved vertically to receive the guides f on the opposed faces of the uprights g and 7i of the frame B.

In the modification illustrated in Fig. 5 I have shown the machine provided with two plungers and their lifter-plates; and in Fig. 6 a portion of the machine is shown with three plungers and lifter-plates. The object of du- IOO plicating or triplieating these parts is that I may be enabled to pack two bags or packages at one stroke of the plunger-frame S, or I may pack three bags or packages at one stroke of the plunger-frame.

When two plunger-rods and plungers are used, as seen in Fig. 5, the rods p lo are secured in the upper cross-head of the plunger-frame S in the same manner as has been described for the single plunger-rod. When more than one mold or funnel is used, they should be secured with blocks between and a band around them with projecting flanges onoutsides, so that one pair of slides may lift the Whole as one, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. There being avariety of forms and sizes of packages desired, I make the larger packages single, the smaller double, and the smallest triple.

The machine may be operated from one or both sides, as the packages may be placed in from and taken out from either or both sides, as there is no obstruction between the liftingplates.

The operation of the machine is quite simple, and is as follows: In their normal positions the plunger-'frame is elevated and the mold-lifting frame is depressed. A bag or bags of cloth or paper, or cloth and paper combined, are drawn over the end of the openbottomed mold or funnel, and the mold filled with tobacco or other material to be packed, and is placed in position on plates c c, the bottoms ofthe bags resting on plate T to receive the pressure of the plunger or plungers entering the mold or funnel, Which latter prevents the bags from being burst. While the pressure holds lthe package upon the plate T the moldlifting frame moves upwardly, the liftingplates c c, engaging the flanges of the mold, draw the mold up out of the bag or package, after which the plunger ascends and instantly relieves the bag or package. The empty mold is then removed from the lifter-plates and an empty bag or package prepared for pressing is put in place, and the operation is repeated.

The operation, it will be observed, is effected by the sector-cams being rotated in the sashframes to operate the pivoted levers which communicate the motion to their respective frames. The machinery arrests the movement of plunger-frame and the lifter-frame at the high and low points of their travel on each stroke, so that the mold may be put in position and :removed with ease and safety. The wheels, levers, &c., are all beneath the table, so that the operator will not Vbe endangered by them while feeding the press.V

The machine is positive and efficient in operation, and is not likely to get out of order.

I am aware that a machine for packing tobacco having. verticallyoperating plungers and verticallyadjustable lifter-plates is not broadly new, and this, broadly, I disclaim.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. rlhe combination, with the frame of the machine, the perforated plate andthe standard U, having the perforated arm U', of the plunger-frameS and plunger, the mold-lifting frame R2, provided with the vertically-adj ustable lifter-plates o e, the levers connected to the lower cross-heads of said frames, the sashframes connected to the levers and working in vertical guideways in the sides of the main frame, the shaft provided with sector-cams within the sash-frames, and means, substantially as described, for operating the cams, as set forth.

2. The combination, with the frame provided with vertical guideways in its sides, of the power-shaft C, provided with the small cogwheel F, the shaft H, provided with the large cog-wheel G' at one end and the sector-shaped cams J and J" on opposite sides of said shaft H between the sides of the frame B, the sashframes L L', secured to slides M, working in guideways I in the sides of the frame B, the pivoted levers P P', connected to the sashframes and to the lower cross-heads of the plunger and lifter frames, and t-he plungers and funnel-lifters, substantially as specified.

3. The combination of the plunger-frame composed of the guide-rods V V and crossheads S and R, the lifter-frames composed ot`95- `justable rods y y', and sliding on the guide-` rods V-, and mechanism, substantially as described, for operating said frames, substantially as set forth.

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In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afxed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WM. R. MUSSER.

Witn esses S. W. PAfrrnRsoN, SAMUEL L. WRIGHT. 

